Awards & Nominations
Hello ISS has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Hello ISS
High-Level Project Summary
We have developed a website where you can track in real time the international space station around the earth. At the same time, we give you the possibility to interact with it, making a 3 dimensional tour through the main modules that compose it. We also add information of interest, solving doubts, such as the size of the modules, their capacity, their protection against meteorites.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Provide additional details about your project. What exactly does it do? How does it work? What benefits does it have? What do you hope to achieve? What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?
The website provides easy and accessible up-to-date information about the International Space Station.
It also allows blind people and children to interact with it easily. It also works on different devices without the need to download an app.
We think the approach of this project is young in spirit. That is, it is visually appealing, offers data of interest synthesized in different languages making the project global, without borders.
in our creative process we identified the objectives of the challenge and the potential considerations to try to meet them in a general way within the website.
We started by solving the tracking of the international space station thanks to an open API that gives us in real time the coordinates of the station.
Prioritizing the potential considerations, we solved the visual design of our website with Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Blender, Intellyj, Visual Studio Code and GitHub.
As tools we have used 4 computers, several A3 sheets to outline the ideas, 36 hours of research, trial and error.
Aditional resources:
- Github: https://github.com/vmaccio/vmaccio.github.io
- PPT used in local defense: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_dpGCwCOQpUtnmuhJ3-bijNhT0eBp58I/view?usp=sharing
- Mock up of webapp: https://www.figma.com/file/co4Hqd49HtGzGhfrNOBU0l/Hello-ISS?node-id=11%3A7
Space Agency Data
The data we have used are mainly from NASA resources.
In particular, the document "REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE SPACE STATION" whose information on the use of energy, protection, modules and nodes is very well detailed.
We have also used the 3D resources provided by NASA to reconstruct the ISS in more detail and present it in an attractive way to the end user.
Hackathon Journey
Our experience at Space Apps has been very rewarding. We have met people with the same interests as us, and we have talked to others specialized in artificial intelligence, engineering, art, etc...
We have been surprised by the amount of profiles and teamwork capacity demonstrated.
Our choice was based on the interest we had in the functioning of the international space station, and we also found the amount of useful resources offered to us very supportive. All this, together with the skills of each team member encouraged us to go for it.
Our team solved the problems by testing and testing relentlessly. Our web developers set a clear goal and solved it by searching for code references, watching tutorials and forums. The designers, we established an attractive visualization focused on the user who loves technology and science without losing the focus on new users, young people or people who are not so easy to navigate on the Internet.
References
Nasa earth model
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/tutorials/simplest-example/
3D Nasa resources:
Space modules: (Columbus, Kibo and destiny)
Illustrations of modules: Provided by AERTEC Solutions with the condition of the usage of the logo
https://aertecsolutions.com/en/multimedia/infographic-20-years-of-the-international-space-station/
Chronology of module launches: Ciudad-futura.net (Página web con licencia Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain(CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
https://ciudad-futura.net/2014/09/21/mapa-iss/
Solar panel rotation info:
Article of Solar tribune by Rich Dana based in the info:
https://solartribune.com/solar-space-powering-international-space-station/
Photo of the rotation of the panels :community.topcoder.com
More detailed info about solar panels: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-solar-arrays-to-power-nasa-s-international-space-station-research
Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD) Protection
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-solar-arrays-to-power-nasa-s-international-space-station-research
Imágenes: Public domain images (Wikipedia)
Whipple shield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield#/media/File:WhippleShield.jpg
Stuffed Whipple shield (ESA)
Department of Defense’s global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors.
Expanded view of ISS (infographic) + Integrated truss assembly
ISS blue print:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estación_Espacial_Internacional#/media/Archivo:ISS_blueprint.png
Infographic ESA image:
As background for the website we used :
http://www.freepik.com">Designed by upklyak / Freepik
Music in the video: Free use Youtube
Tags
#3d #track #earth #ISS #Internationalspacestation